Are you wary of travelling to USA currently?

They’ll go up if planes can’t be filled, not down and there will be less services running to choose from.

Well, I absolutely despise current Labour gov but I'd vote for them every day of my life if the choice was between them and Musk/Trump.
StormShadows for targeting Russia - that's one of the very few items I'm actually proud of and agree with them.
US to me now joined the likes of putin and Russia and it's impossible to get any lower than this.

I wouldn't go to US now under any circumstances.
If nothing else, I don't want to spend a single penny there to support their economy. And no, I'm not using Amazon or Netflix anymore. Nor X or Facebook.

It's not Friday night. I'm still at work... procrastinating haha. Also I'm English! So MN is very relatable.

You do realise that there's a time difference between the UK and America, right?

@Crushed23 how come if your life is sooo good your on a Brit parenting site on a Friday night ? Lol

I agree that the atmosphere in Florida would not be pleasant for an LGBTQ individual. But the real reason I would not travel to the US right now is that their government has been plunged into chaos overnight, with entire departments shuttered, critical employees fired without notice, and a complete collapse in morale among remaining staff.

At some point in the next few weeks or months, this is going to start affecting the basic functions of government. This includes things like maintaining transport infrastructure (eg air traffic controllers, railways) and also the agencies responsible for ensuring the security of major events and tourist sites. So FBI, CIA, federal law enforcement of all sorts.

If it hasn’t already, FIFA needs to seriously consider moving the 2026 World Cup. You can’t secure an event of that size or complexity if your security services are under strength, disorganized, and riven by factionalism and paranoia.

I am glad that so many people don’t feel the affects of the massive, shattering changes that have happened in the last month. But that is because you have some sort of privilege - you aren’t gay or an immigrant living in America or relying on an income from one of the 100000 jobs he’s cut or in need of pregnancy care. But just because that doesn’t affect you, doesn’t mean it isn’t happening and all of that combines to make me both anxious about being there and frustrated at spending money there.

I do wonder if eventually we’d have to consider our safety at visiting as we are joint uk / us citizens so while in the states we are Americans. I am hoping it’s just irrational panic but WW2 and the handmaids tale keep going round in my head on a loop.

No, I don’t…

Oh yes, you don’t want a plane full of irrational people spouting HYPERBOLE when you travel 😆

Don’t go. I’d rather my plane isn’t full of irrational people spouting hyperbole when I travel. Thanks.

Quite honestly, your H should have got up and left after he read the menu. I have spent a lot less than $90 on dinner delivery for five adults. Also, giving a child cash and sending him or her alone to a corner shop isn't a good idea.

@RosaMoline why at 58 would you never get to go to America again?

Also is everyone thinking civil war on America is no one thinking along the lines of world war. ?

I don’t think anything is going to happen to tourists - we were in Boston last night for the 4Nations final and there wasn’t any trouble. It’s more whether you want to visit a country with Trump as President who is threatening to take other countries, ethnically cleanse Gaza and align with Putin over Ukraine?

Some of these comments are verging on hysteria. I’m not a Trump fan but wouldn’t think twice about visiting the US and will do later this year.
I don’t anticipate my experience being any different to any other time I’ve travelled -
I’m not sure exactly what people think might happen?!

I live in Canada, not the UK and Trump is threatening us.

I don't have a desire to go anyway but if I did I'd still go

I feel lucky enough to have travelled there when younger and would choose other places rn

Thankfully when we left the UK, we chose Canada 🇨🇦

Oh the irony....

Our own PM has been caught out in a number of lies already in his short time in.

Threatening other countries? The use of StormShadow to target installations in Russia.....

We as a country are not innocent and wholesome. So shouldn't really be throwing stones.

You’re happy living in a country with a convicted felon as President who constantly lies and now threatens other countries? @Parker231

It doesn't cross my mind, in all honesty. Day to day life is great here and an improvement on when I lived in the UK. This is my personal experience, I obviously can't speak for everyone who lives here. But I am a very positive and grateful person in general - a more 'American' attitude to life than a British one, I guess. Maybe that's why I like it so much here. Tonight I am going to a rave with my date and a group of friends, having had to chose from a myriad of things to do on a Friday night because we live in such an exciting city and everyone in my social circle here loves going out (and has ample disposable income to do so because jobs pay a lot better). There are so many reasons that I can't get into, but life is just so good here. 🙂

Not sure why your laughing at the idea.

It's not like the right wing are going to realise they've been played like fools by the likes of rump and Musk.

In a year or so time, when their lives have gotten worse, not better, they'll continue swallow the rhetoric and blame migrants, liberals, LGBT, democrats, etc, etc for their woes and it'll only be a short hop to pogroms of the "left" from there.

Lol at the exaggerated posts about CoL. Yes, food is expensive but $90 on breakfast is in no way representative. A breakfast out for me is a $6 bagel, or $15 if I want to stretch to avo-toast. I don't remember London being much cheaper tbh.

I wouldn't go on principle, but that's just me.

You’re happy living in a country with a convicted felon as President who constantly lies and now threatens other countries?